University and of the Law Department of Iowa State University. In 1893 he moved to Oklahoma; married Lucy M. Bradley of Moberly, Mo., Oct. 21, 1900. During the World War Mrs. Garber was an efficient member of the State Council of Defence and active in Red Cross work. She is a woman of great ability and charm, a home-maker, a student, and a wise and efficient mother.

In 1902 M. C. Garber was elected Probate Judge of Garfield County and reelected in 1904. In 1906 he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and served in that capacity until Oklahoma became a state. In 1909 he was elected Judge of the 20th Judicial District of Oklahoma and in 1919 he was elected Mayor of the City of Enid, Okla.

He, together with his brother Burton, who are jointly identified in all business enterprises, secured the first block of oil leases around Garber and sunk the first test well which proved the Garber Oil Field which poured millions of dollars into the laps of those who owned the lands and made these Garbers wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

His Children are:

Ruth W., b at Garber, Okla., on October 9, 1901;

Martin D., b at Garber, Okla., on Mch. 25, 1903;

Martha E., b at Garber, Okla., on Aug. 12, 1910;

Milton B., b at Garber, Okla., on November 8, 1912.

These children are all very talented; are, by nature leaders, and are keenly alive to the responsibilities of life.

4--Florence I. Garber, b in Humboldt County Cali., May 15, 1865; lives at Garber, where she is in business with her two brothers; is the moving spirit in all Christian Church affairs, where she and her mother always strove to develop the best qualities and social graces of the young people of the